Cary Grant Movie Quotes  
     
  Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)  
     
     
  Cary Grant as Jim Blandings :  
     
     
  It's a conspiracy, I tell you. The minute you start they put you on the all-American sucker list. You start out to build a home and wind up in the poorhouse. And if it can happen to me, what about the guys who aren't making $15,000 a year? The ones who want a home of their own. It's a conspiracy, I tell you - -against every boy and girl who were ever in love.  
     
   
     
  Nothing, Mary. Just a private joke between me and whoever my analyst is going to be.  
     
   
     
  Muriel and I have found what I am not ashamed to call our dream house. It is like a fine painting. You buy it with your heart, not your head. You don't ask how much was the paint, how much was the canvas. You look at it and you say "it is beautiful... I want it." And, if it cost a few more pennies, you pay it and gladly, because you love it and you can't measure things you love in dollars and cents.  
     
   
     
   Just a minute. I'm entitled to know what I did. This is America. A man is guilty until he's proven innocent.  
     
   
     
  For 1,300 dollars they can live in a house with three bathrooms and ROUGH IT.  
     
   
     
  I am not interested in discussing the grain and texture of Bill Cole's hair follicles before I've had my breakfast.  
     
   
     
  And where do I keep my powdered wig?  
     
   
     
  What's with this kissing all of a sudden? I don't like it. Every time he goes out of this house, he shakes my hand and kisses you.  
     
   
     
  It just so happened that General... uh... Gates stopped right there at that very house to water his horses.  
     
   
     
  Just takes some good old Yankee know how.  
     
   
     
  I thought he was a lawyer. Why isn't he out suing somebody?  
     
   
     
  For the rest of my life, I'll have to get up at 5 in the morning to catch the 6:15 train to get to my office at 8. It doesn't even open until 9, and I never get there until 10!  
     
   
     
  I am going out to get my head examined.